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Contains 84 Results:

G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "Pictures from the Paintbox" 3 and 4, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 188
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-188
Scope and Contents

Initials at bottom of both drawings. Drawings entitled "Chinese White" and "Burnt Siena." Drawings come from a series entitled "Pictures from the Paintbox" published in The Coloured Lands.

Dates: undated

Drawing: Portrait of G.K.C., undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 190
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-190
Scope and Contents

Unknown artist. Signature on bottom right.

Dates: undated

G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: Self portrait and two men fighting, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 193
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-193
Scope and Contents

Two sheets, unsigned. The sheet with two men fighting also has several faint sketches on the back.

Dates: undated

G.K. Chesterton, Drawings: Illustrations for The Moonstone, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 195
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-195
Scope and Contents

These illustrations for Wilkie Collins' famous novel were never published.

Dates: undated

G.K. Chesterton, Printed Drawings, 1932

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 146
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-146
Scope and Contents

Two drawings done by Chesterton for the Notre Dame publication The Juggler.

Dates: 1932

G.K. Chesterton, Poem, 1946 June 15

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 147
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-147
Scope and Contents

This previously unpublished poem was written on the fly-leaf of The Wild Knight, Chesterton's first book of poetry, published in 1900. Here it is printed on page 306 of The Tablet, Vol. 187, No. 5536. Folder includes two issues.

Dates: 1946 June 15

G.K. Chesterton, "Three Letters of G.K.C. to Maurice Baring", 1953 December 26

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 148
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-148
Scope and Contents

These previously unpublished letters appeared on pages 622-623 in The Tablet, Vol. 202, No. 5927. The letters date from the early 1920s and center on Chesterton's religious beliefs.

Dates: 1953 December 26

G.K. Chesterton, "The Idleness of G.K.C.", 1977

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 149
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-149
Scope and Contents

Item consists of a letter to a "Miss Hamel," which was privately printed by Henk van Otterloo for friends.

Dates: 1977

The Distributist League, Manifesto, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 150
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-150
Scope and Contents

This manifesto for the economic ideology, distributism, shows Chesterton as the league president on the title page.

Dates: undated

Photograph, G.K. Chesterton, 1920

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 151
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-151
Scope and Contents

Headshot of G.K. Chesterton. Credit: Underwood and Underwood, Chicago.

Dates: 1920

Photographs, G.K. and Frances Chesterton, 1921-1926

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 152
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-152
Scope and Contents

Contains three photographs: a small snapshot of G. K. and Frances Chesterton outside their home in Beaconsfield (folder also contains an enlarged copy), a photograph of the couple upon their arrival in New York for GKC’s 1921 American tour, and a headshot of GKC by a Chicago studio.

Dates: 1921-1926

Photographs, G.K. Chesterton, 1930

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 153
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-153
Scope and Contents

Here Chesterton is pictured receiving an honorary doctorate at the University of Notre Dame.

Dates: 1930

Photograph, G.K. Chesterton, 1932

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 154
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-154
Scope and Contents

Photograph and postcard of the 1932 James Gunn painting in the National Portrait Gallery.

Dates: 1932

Photograph, G.K. Chesterton, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 155
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-155
Scope and Contents

Headshot of G.K. Chesterton. Credit: Howard Coster, London.

Dates: undated

Photograph, G.K. Chesterton, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 156
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-156
Scope and Contents

Headshot of G.K. Chesterton. Credit: Alvin Langdon Coburn, signed.

Dates: undated

G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: Tennis player and study of three heads, 1898

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 157
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-157
Scope and Contents

Signed "G.K. Chesterton / Secretary" at lower right. The tennis player on the right of the folded sheet seems unrelated to the sketches on the left.

Dates: 1898

G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "The cries appeared to come from a decapitated head resting on the pavement", 1905

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 158
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-158
Scope and Contents

Chesterton's variation on an illustration for his novel The Club of Queer Trades.

Dates: 1905

G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "My account? And what have I got to do with it?", 1905

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 159
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-159
Scope and Contents

"Not this" written at lower right. Variation on an illustration for the novel The Club of Queer Trades.

Dates: 1905

G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "Do you know where you are, Major?", 1905

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 160
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-160
Scope and Contents

Notes on the back of the page. Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Dates: 1905

G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "My account? And what have I got to do with it?", 1905

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 161
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-161
Scope and Contents

Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades. Sketch on the back of the page is of the same characters.

Dates: 1905

G.K. Chesterton, Drawing, 1905

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 162
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-162
Scope and Contents

Sketch of Basil Grant, a character in the novel The Club of Queer Trades. "Not this" noted on bottom right of page.

Dates: 1905

G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "There is the wickedest man in London", 1905

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 163
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-163
Scope and Contents

Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Dates: 1905

G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "They went in quite undisguised, tied up in wisps of string or straw, to the delight of the poetic gutter boys", 1905

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 164
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-164
Scope and Contents

Variation of an illustration for The Club of Queer Trades. "Not this" noted on bottom right of page.

Dates: 1905

G.K. Chesterton, Drawing, 1905

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 165
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-165
Scope and Contents

Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Dates: 1905

G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "Our eyes were fixed where his were fixed, upon something on the counter. It was a ferret", 1905

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 166
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-166
Scope and Contents

Variation on an illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Dates: 1905

G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "Suddenly Basil stopped and turned to us, his hands in his pockets", 1905

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 167
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-167
Scope and Contents

Variation on an illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Dates: 1905

G.K. Chesterton, Drawing, 1905

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 168
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-168
Scope and Contents

Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Dates: 1905

G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "What do you make of that?", 1905

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 170
Identifier: MSE/MD 3718-170
Scope and Contents

Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Dates: 1905